Everywhere we look seems to have someone trying to sell us a ‘fool-proof’ way to a healthy long life. If it’s not a vibration machine, or a gold solution, it’s an expensive book that promises if bought will teach us the secret to living forever. Each one of these products has a different business behind it, and a different celebrity that swears by it. And let’s not forget the special powers it’s gained from a different Power of the Universe. (POTU for short).
Is it even possible that all of these products can be correct? Of course not. Most of these products are backed by thieves. People that just want to con innocent people out of their money. The few that actually do believe the stuff they’re selling people, are simply deluded and confused. They seem to confuse fairy tale stories for actual medical data, but know that people see want they want to see, therefore only the smallest scale of actual evidence is needed.
To me, the people that sell health are crazy. Personally, I’d send them some medication, if I thought it would do actual good, but it might allow them to think they’re doing something good in the world. So I won’t send medication, but I will continue to hope that they somehow see the light and begin a transformation. Hopefully they will learn that the secret to long life is a way of life, not a pill you can take in one day.
The best advice you’ll ever get is free: eat well. Almost every disease out there can be prevented, cured, or at least improved with a better diet. Most of us have terrible diets, filled with fats and chemicals, and even common sense says that will take a toll. Getting lots of green plants, fresh fruits, and whole grains is essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Take cancer as an example, how many forms of cancer are lessened by a high fiber high plant food diet? I’m not certain of the up to date number, but I know it’s a big percentage. They’ve done research in caners as diverse as breast, lung, mouth and bowel and all of them are affected by fiber, phytochemicals, antioxidants or polyphenols.
How can you really incorporate these research tested chemicals into your body? Your diet is the answer! There is no way you can take a pill, a drink, or elixir that will do this for you. Go to the grocery store, eat some pomegranates, blueberries, or some oatmeal. The complexity of the interactions these compounds have with each other isn’t fully researched, so it’s impossible to make them into a easy to use pill.
Even the research on soluble fiber and its effects on cholesterol and heart disease point to the need to take that substance in as a food, in oatmeal or cold cereal rather then taking a pill. This society has become very much a society of magical thinkers. Sometimes that magical thinking takes the form of religion, sometimes it takes the form of belief in homeopathy or “natural food cures”, and sometimes it takes the form of the belief that anything that is good can be compressed into a pill. It just isn’t so. Sometimes the answer to a question is both as simple and as complex as eating good whole foods.
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